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A true south for design? The new international division of labour in architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2001

Paolo Tombesi
Paolo Tombesi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia; p.tombesi@architecture.unimelb.edu.au
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This analysis shows how the increasing availability of computers inarchitectural practice and the steady development of electronicnetworks around the world could encourage the relocation ofprofessional structures into countries with lower production costs.Starting from the existence of sharp professional wage differentialsbetween developed and developing regions, it formulates thehypothesis that, in a few years, most architectural work could bedocumented in places such as South-East Asia and transferreddigitally over to America, Australia or Europe.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 171 - 180
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press